[Gpm] increasing the size of the cut/paste bufferR

[Alessandro Rubini]

> How do I do that?

the selection buffer lives in the kernel. It's allocated as needed
(but allocating too big a buffer is likely to fail: going above
page-size is risky.

While the buffer is malloced, pasting is limited to 4kB at a time, I
think (due to simplified interaction with the tty layers.

Unfortunately, it's not easy to "paste in parts", as the cut buffer is
a single item in the kernel. You only bet is patching the kernel. I
did it once, Linus refused the patch (ok, it was not clean, but
it's difficult to do it cleanly).

hope this helps
/alessandro, not the gpm maintainer
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